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Bret Victor Jan 27
"If I had to write this paper, this is what I would write."
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Alec Resnick Dec 15
Replying to @vgr
9. Human development is slow. Experimentation requires longer time horizons than most investment vehicles permit. To a first approximation, you can probably ignore research or reform efforts which don't have built into their structure deep acknowledgment of this.
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Bret Victor Nov 13
Replying to @redblobgames @qualmist
Here's that plot with the error area normalized to circumference. I think this is sort of an L1 average of the error radius -- the distance that the pixelated circle deviates radially from the perfect circle. Seems to oscillate around 0.25?
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Bret Victor Nov 6
Replying to @pwang @rsnous @msexcel
(FWIW, after Rich concedes that most data requires "sufficient formatting and metadata" and "some human involvement for interpretation", Alan could have added, "For a scalable (intergalactic) system, that "metadata" must be a *process*, because human involvement doesn't scale.")
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Bret Victor Nov 6
Replying to @pwang @rsnous @msexcel
This is a interesting exchange between (pro-data) Rich Hickey and (pro-meaning) Alan Kay:
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Bret Victor Nov 5
Replying to @dilgreen
"A Pattern Parlance" might have made the cut. Or "A Rhetoric of Recurrences".
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Bret Victor Oct 29
Replying to @mandy3284
"The Grid" by Gretchen Bakke is excellent.
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Bret Victor Oct 29
it's a physical object
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Bret Victor Oct 29
Replying to @rrherr @edelwax
DM me your mailing address
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Bret Victor Oct 22
In Early History of Smalltalk, Kay mentions Piaget, Bruner, Montessori, Dewey, Holt, Suzuki, Arnheim, McLuhan, others. Later: Betty Edwards, Doreen Nelson, Tim Gallwey, Koestler, (even later) Kahneman... (Some pointers here: )
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Bret Victor Oct 18
Replying to @dilgreen
"A Pattern Language" doesn't fit the pattern
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Bret Victor Oct 17
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Bret Victor Sep 15
Replying to @hypotext
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Bret Victor Sep 14
Replying to @hypotext
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Bret Victor Aug 12
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Bret Victor Aug 2
Replying to @acwervo @rsnous
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Bret Victor Jul 30
Replying to @Dynamicland1
(This was three lines of code. You could have made it yourself.)
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Bret Victor Jul 30
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Bret Victor Jul 13
Replying to @rsnous
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Bret Victor Jun 12
Carver's wonderful whirlwind history of how people learned to move electrons around
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